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The top cipher is very high and difficult to read (unless you are ''very'' tall). It consists of a grid of 10 rows and 26 columns wrapping around the entire pillar.
 
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The bottom cipher is at eye heigh. It contains letters in a grid of 5 rows and 26 columns. It contains what appear to be plain text words. A glyph containing an oscilating line and a dissected triangle points into one column of letters.
 
The bottom cipher is at eye heigh. It contains letters in a grid of 5 rows and 26 columns. It contains what appear to be plain text words. A glyph containing an oscilating line and a dissected triangle points into one column of letters.
  

Revision as of 14:37, 9 March 2013

Pillar 01-Night01.jpg

Pillar 01 is the "Title Pillar".

It contains two cipher texts, and the sculpture's title.

Top Cipher

Pillar 01-Text 01.jpg

The top cipher is very high and difficult to read (unless you are very tall). It consists of a grid of 10 rows and 26 columns wrapping around the entire pillar.

The cipher text reads


The current best decryption is:


Bottom cipher

Pillar 01-Text 02.jpg

The bottom cipher is at eye heigh. It contains letters in a grid of 5 rows and 26 columns. It contains what appear to be plain text words. A glyph containing an oscilating line and a dissected triangle points into one column of letters.

The cipher text reads:

ALABYRINTHSTANDSBEHATAWAIT

EHTHCUORHTPEOYEROFTSAMCINE

ATONEBYONESTUATHEYCREATETH

IEFOENOTUBSIDNSNRETTRAMTHG

ETWISTSANDTURNSFORPAKALLTH

The current best decryption is (posted by Glenn McIntosh on the nkrpyt Facebook page on 20 February 2013

A labyrinth stands before you

and is but one of eight

mark all the twists and turns

for patterns they create

that one by one step through

the enigmas that await